2003 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 — Complaint #915124
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, AIR:DRUM:SHOES/LININGS filed April 19, 2012
NHTSA complaint #915124 (ODI reference 10455760) concerns a 2003 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 and was filed on April 19, 2012. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 26, 2012. The vehicle had 105,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Maryland based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, air:drum:shoes/linings, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 cohort independently describe similar service brakes, air:drum:shoes/linings failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2003 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
WE HAD BRAKE LINING FAILURES WHICH RESULT IN TOTAL LOSS OF BRAKES. LUCKY FOR US WE JUST GOT OFF OF A MAIN ROAD INTO A PARKING LOT. ADVISED BY AN INDEPENDENT REPAIR SHOP THAT THIS IS A COMMON PROBLEM WITH THIS VEHICLE MAKE MODEL AND YEAR. WE HAD TWO BREAKS AND LOST ALL BRAKE FLUID INSTANTLY. REPAIR SHOP SAID THE ENTIRE SYSTEM OF BRAKE LININGS NEEDED TO BE REPLACED IN OUR TRUCK AT A COST OF $827.00! *JS
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 915124 |
| ODI Number | 10455760 |
| Date Filed | April 19, 2012 |
| Failure Date | March 26, 2012 |
| VIN | 2GCEK19T231 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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